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CONDITIONS AND EVENTS 



WHOSE COMBINATION 



FORCED THE NOMINATION 



WILLIAM McKINLEY 



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OUTLINED BY D. LAMB. 
WRITTEN BY JOHN BEMER CROSBY. 



COPYRIGHT, 1896. 
BY JOHN BEMER CROSBY 



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DESTINY. 



A HERO FOR 1:\1:RY EPOCH. 



William McKlxlly. the ALw of the Hour. 



The blindinij- whirl of events rolls within the heavy cycles of time, and every 
revolution inevitably raises once to the top the sorrowful side. 

Every crisis has its master, dragg-ed by Fate from none knows where, as 
every evil has its end, though the path to it be long. 

There came a time of unrest in the United States. In the past there had been 
times of trouble, periods of national travail, but their causes had been compara- 
tively extraneous. They had not been born of poverty so prevalent as to domi- 
nate national thought. 

Bad government caused this time of unrest. And, in a Republic, who, if not 
the people, shall be blamed for bad government? Their error here was not one 
of insanity, it was merely one of bad judgment. Surely the nation at large was 
not afflicted with the suicidal mania. 

The people had comparatively good times, yet contentment was a stranger. 
"With them there seemed to some to be the paradoxical condition that sufficiency 
was not enough. 

So they tried an experiment. Its other name was disaster. What they con- 
ceived was a promise of greater strength and beauty proved to be a threat that 
breathed extraordinary venom. They drank of the promise, but not long for 
suddenly the nation was seized with convulsions. 

Soon there was utter stagnation of what business was not actually paralytic. 
This state, of its own quality, reacted and aggravated the very condition that was 
its cause. 

And so swung to and fro the pendulum of negative prosperity, each arc 
shorter than the last before, slowly but incessantly nearing the instant when 
motion would cease and the world of business and of peace would be dead. 

But the people of the nation, both those whose palms were calloused and 
those whose hands were soft, had clear eyes, eyes through which now operated a 
keener discernment and a resultant vigor of determination that was puritanic. 
And, in the instant that they saw the terror of the conditions, they saw, also, the 
remedy that would prove itself at first a cooling emolient and at last a cure. 

Men of all parties, of all beliefs, of all classes, and of all minds, turned in 



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their thoughts instantly, instinctively, unerringly to one man of all the nation — 
William McKinley. 

This man they knew, trusted, respected, admired, and, if sex may love sex, 
they loved him. They conceived that here was a man who, among his contempo- 
raries, stood alone; who was in company onlv with the great of the past, who on 
their plane of manhood are an all too meager party; that not for more than thirty 
years had so clean and so strong a figure been in the public eye. 

Had there been an equal crisis between the day of Lincoln and the now, doubt- 
less some man would have sprung from some crevice of obscurity to ride it, but 
there had been no culmination of a trouble great enough to hurl the great from 
home to the saddle of the chief. 

And now had come the time. And the man had come to rule it. And the 
people were to rule him. for he was of the people, and he could rule himself. 

rHI< SWAY OF ILLINOIS. 

No " Empire State of the West '" is Illinois. Rather call her the Mentor of 
the Republic, for the political suzerainty of the extreme east has vanished in the 
ripened power of the whole, now in better concord with its parts than when one 
section held dominion. Illinois' political importance has not usurped the place of 
New York's. It has met and fused with it. Yet its geographical position gives 
to its opinion a pronounced and peculiar prestige. And so the pioneers of relief, 
as the bona fide " original McKinley men" might be termed, turned covetous eyes 
toward it at the beginning. 

Marcus A. Hanna, of Cleveland, Ohio, was a life friend and apostle of 
McKinley. He had the inherent aggressiveness of the man born for commercial 
strife, and he had the bold conservatism and persistent self-reliance of the man of 
great success in that strife. 

So, of his own act, from motives of personal admiration and a broad concern 
in the nation's material well-being, he undertook the seemingly not great task of 
crystalizing the prevalent McKinley faith, that existed all over the country, loose, 
ungarnered. 

In the largely pivotal state of Illinois he delegated to Charles G. Dawes the 
task of organizing the working forces and of then resolving into concrete form 
this known desire of the people in that state. He made no error. Dawes was a 
voung man who bad wrenched from circumstances a pronounced personal success. 
He was a man of retined dcmcani)r that had not the ultra-refinement that grows on 
the grave of vigor. His innate strength of character was leonine and yet discreet, 
and therefore doubly potent. His Napoleonic grasp of the situation and deter- 
mined use of its often hidden advantages, backed by the sincerity, loyalty and 
abilitN of a few other men whose fealty was not fed on prospective spoils, 
achieved an historical triumph over the resourceful scheming of as 




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compact and staunch a political coterie as ever weig'hed its own eagerness ag'ainst 
the people's wishes. 

These men had to take a great swirling- volume of public preference, incom- 
pressible as water, often merely undertow and not discernible on the surface, 
and sluice it without waste toward the then unknown place of the convention. 
And they did it. It was not easily handled because it was too strong and virile 
to be plastic. These qualities are good but hard to manage. It was too free and 
sweeping to be subjugated or even judiciousl}- directed by means other than of the 
subtlest diplomacy. This thev had. 

In Illinois, as elsewhere, the people spoke of Reed, the popular tonic of the 
Repul)licanisin of the east; they mentioned Harrison, the honored pillar of 
the center; they discussed Allison, their conservative champion in the west and 
they suggested other admirable men, but they thought only of William McKinley. 
Underlying all was idolatry of McKinley, back of all was a magnificent trust in 
McKinley, and enveloping all was a determination to get McKinley. Reference 
to others was a controversial condiment, nothing more. 

His name was synonymt)Us with the great principle of protection, from which 
depended their hope of the peace of the states and the prosperity of the nation. 

Public confidence in revived Republican triumph was strengthened by the 
results of the elections of l.S')4 and 1895. The party's motto was not resurs^am, 
for it had never been down. Pro patria was the broader and more accurate phrase. 
This positive state of the public mind regarding- party prospects was the father 
of the first obstacle that challenged the progress of the legion of McKinley. 
This very assurance of part}- triumph bred arrogance in the hearts of the profes- 
sional politicians. These hearts are ever unstably balanced and, by the natural 
law of avarice, lean toward the side whence they feel the magnet of a plastic 
man. They knew that this man was submissive to nothing but his own sense of 
duty. So, at first, with insidious argument, they persistently opposed his 
candidacy. He became formidable. Then they openly fought with the desperation 
of futility his progress toward his destiny. But they found hini as invincible as 
the logic of right. 

In the campaign preceding the nomination the part taken by Herman H. 
Kohlsaat, both as an individual counselor and through the power of his great 
newspaper, the Chicago Times-Herald, is easily discerned in its effectiveness, but 
it is with difficulty defined in its scope. That it was an agency of tremendous 
power is beyond controversy. It unified the McKinley sentiment already in ex- 
istence and it created such sentiment where it had not been before. And the power 
of the paper was enhanced by its honorable a'ostention from easy suppression of 
occasional incidents adverse to the cause it labored for. Kohlsaat's conscientious- 
ness as a publicist outweighed even his deep friendship for McKinley, and by that 
very fact was the prestige and potency of his chamjiionshi]) increased. 




ALEXANDER H. REVELL 



THE SEQUENCE OF EVENTS. 

In December, 1894, Charles U. Gordon, then president of the famous 
Marquette Club, of Chicag-o, went with the late John Worthy to New 
York to invite Dr. Parkhurst to be a jfuest of the club at a prospective banquet. 
While in New York he met Major McKinley, who chanced to be sojourning there, 
and took advantage of the coincidence to present to him another in,vitation to 
become the club's guest at some convenient time. The invitation was as cor- 
dially accepted as given and the time was set for Lincoln's birthday in the suc- 
ceeding year, 18'»5. Already was it the unpublished but ardent desire of Gordon 
and a few other prominent men of Chicago, to do all within their power to secure 
to McKinley every chance of the presidential nomination. He was their ideal 
candidate and the sooner public sentiment could be awakened the more potent 
would it be in its efforts to secure the nomination of a man from out itself rather 
than the choice of an}' dominant political clique. 

The months passed. Shrewd eyes read well political signs and accurately 
diagnosed political conditions. It seemed wise to defer for a year McKinley's 
assured ovation in Chicago. So, in January, 1895, President Gordon suggested 
to the prospective guest that postponement would be desirable and Major McKinley 
courteoush' acquiesced. 

It was at this time, also, that another man of national fame was designated 
as a guest and speaker for the 12th of February, a year thence; he who afterward 
presided over the Saint Louis ratification of the people's choice. Senator John M. 
Thurston, of Nebraska. 

And during these days the brain of Marcus A. Hanna, of Cleveland, was not 
idle. Having bv now determined that his course in his old friend's behalf should 
be one of activity, he, with habitual skill and ra])i(litv, first systematized his 
ideas. This done, he employed the tactful force that had achieved for him suc- 
cess in private endeavor, and i)ut intcj instant operation the preliminary plan. 

It was a plan of absolute singleness of purpose, — public endorsement of 
McKinley by every congressional' district, by every Republican organization and 
b}- every individual whose prominence was such that his opinion would weigh 
with others; a plan of utter non-intervention in everything that did not directlv 
bear on and aid tliat purpose; a plan of positive intent to secure explicit instruc- 
tions for McKinley by every district convention wherein such could be gained. 
Local issues and factional disagreements were to be left severelv alone; friends 
were not to be bought with enemies of equal power as the price. 

Discreet men were dispatched to various parts of the state outside of Chicago. 
With care and vigor they canvassed among men of local power in politics and of 
standing in business. They strove to implant and to nurture pro-instructions 
sentiment on all sides and were wary to not urge one or another individual for 




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position as a deleg-ate. They desired only to secure instructions, whoever mig'ht 
be selected. 

These canvassers were placed in communication with Charles G. Dawes, and 
to him thev constantly reported the results of their work. Likewise, all who wrote 
from Illinois to either McKinley orHanna, and they were many and eminent, were 
referred to Dawes, who counselled them when they asked for advice and thanked 
them when they sent encourag-ement. 

Thus the campaign was, from the beginning-, maintained upon a basis of 
definite system and complete sub-autocracy merged in a central despotism of 
rare acumen. 

In November, 1895, Hanna went to Chicago to review the situation and to 
establish what might be termed a board of home missions. He wanted to ascer- 
tain the sentiment of the prominent Republicans of Cook county toward his 

candidate. 

General "William M. Osborne, of Boston, was also there at the time on a not 

dissimilar errand. 

A number of well-known citizens who were known to be advocates of McKinley 
were assembled for consultation. The meeting was one of mutual encouragement 
and mutual gratulation. When it was dissolved each had as definite intent for 
the future as he had positive knowledge of the past. 

The continuance of the campaign, thenceforward to be more concertedly 
energetic than ever, was determined in detail. Hanna returned to his home, 
leaving the absolute charge of the state under the keen eye and firm hand of 
Charles G. Dawes. 

Early in December, 1895, Charles U. Gordon gave, at the Union League Club, 
an informal dinner to about twenty-five men, numbering those akeady actively inter- 
ested and those whose future co-operation was valued. The entire evening was de- 
voted to exhaustive discussion of ways and means. There was born the plan of ward 
sub-organization and there the work was partitioned and the portions were assigned 
on the discreet basis of individual qualification. Prior to this time a handful of men 
had done the greater part of the active work. Thereafter the task, growing ever 
greater in scope though not in difficulty, rested on greater numbers. 

Then began persistent and incessant individual missionary work by the con- 
ferees among their widely diverse friends. 

Alexander H. Revell was a tireless advocate and worked with the energy born 
of the sincerity of motive that animated the entire band. His sacrifice of his 
personal affairs was probably greater than that of many others owing to the 
nature of his business! But however great the cost to him, he is rewarded with 
full appreciation by all. 




WASHINGTON PORTER. 



John McNulta was one whose yoeman labors in the field were equalled in 
value by only his sagacity in the privy council, w^hich in those days was an 
exceedingly active body, whose sessions were so often spontaneous and impromptu 
that they were all bnt incessant. His sound and ever ready wisdom served to 
span more than one crisis. 

A. W. Clancy labored with the well-directed enthusiasm characteristij of 
him, and with the success to which he had become accustomed by the events of his 
life since, in the service of his country, he lost an arm and gained a regimental 

title. 

To Charles U. Gordon is due and justly given by those conversant with the 

campaign, the highest and most genuine credit for work whose effectiveness was 
equaled by that of but few others. His wonderful management of the contest in 
the seventh congressional district gave to him a national fame because the triumph 
was of national import. 

Washington Porter was a participant and a valued one. His work was lent 
efficacy bv his wide and successful experience in other fields of endeavor of similar 
nature relating to the Columbian Exposition and other great affairs. 

Samuel W. Allerton's stability as a political anchor was as undeniable as was 
his solidity as a commercial landmark. 

Elden C. DeWitt, always a prominent member and afterward president of the 
Marquette Club, more than justified, as a field oflicer, the confidence placed in him 
by his co-workers and others. 

The careful, effective methods of George V. Lauman won for the cause many 
reliable supporters and for himself consequent honor. 

George E. Adams found his temperamental conservatism of value in his 
endeavor to aid McKinley, because it gave quality to his utterances and weight to 

his acts. 

As a man of impulsive sagacity in the direction of affairs. Edward A. Bigelow 
was a very potent factor in the production of the compact engine of determination 
that drew McKinley with irresistible certainty to succes.s. 



William P. Williams was another man whose capacity for incessant and 
judicious work was displayed in a manner that emphasized his value as a mission- 
ary of patriotic purpose and exceptional resourcefulness. 

J. L. Fulton was a manolith of strength as a recruiting officer and his sturdy 
wisdom and accurate political judgment formed a very important element in the 
ultimate compound of triumph. 

H. Dorsev Patton cintributed his immeasurable prowess as a proselyter and 
his vehement logic firmly planted on the rock of reason many a man of indecisive 




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poise. His peers as an invincible debater were so few that his service to Mc- 
Kinley's cause was greater in tang-ible results than that of many men of equal 
intent but of less energ-}' of execution. He was one of the men the number of 
whose converts was practically identical with the size of his audience. 

Freelv and libcrallv g-iven was the ver}- considerable social and financial 
power of John J. Knickerbocker. 

Wilton C. Smith and J. H. Strong were loyal and very effective members of 
the original finance committee of the Business Men's McKinley Club, mention of 
which will hereafter be made in the chronology of events. William P. Williams 
was the able chairman, and Samuel W. Allerton, John J. Knickerbocker, William 
J. Chalmers and J. W. Maxwell completed the list. They formed a coterie of rare 
prestige in monetary circles and were therefore espeeinlly effective in the field of 
work placed in their charge. 

J, McGregor Adams gave his aid in more than one effective way and Walter 
H. Chamberlin was at all times a valued co-laborer with the active leaders. 

I). F. Crilly's efforts to place beyond doubt McKinley's chance of success, 
were tireless and his methods were liberal and counted well. 

And so, in ways divergent but concerted and by means distinctive but well- 
planned, these men more than other men, from the beginning influenced sentiment 
and blazed the path for the column of success that ultimately came, in step to the in- 
spiring strains of the people's song of triumphant desire. 

Clubs, restaurants and firesides were the scenes of conversion. 

From men of silent leaning toward McKinley were evolved active workers ; ad- 
vocates of a moderate tariff became vigorous partisans of the great protectionist and 
out of his theretofore passive adherents developed energetic campaigners. The system 
was the most effective of all systems, — that of interminable sequences. 



In the early part of January, 1896, Washington Porter, long previously an ar- 
dent and sincere McKinley prophet, fathered the first definitely and exclusively 
McKinley Club in the state of Illinois. At his residence, in the thirty-second ward 
met several citizens of prominence. They all were anxious to promote McKinley's 
interests and the latter's friend, Porter, desired their advice regarding methods. The 
consultation resulted in speedy approval of his plan for the early establishment of 
ward organizations, and it was determined to then and there inaugurate the series. 

A ward mass-meeting was at once called for an early date. It was wonder- 
fully successful. More than fifteen hundred enthusiastic men at once enrolled them- 
selves, and so was born the William McKinley Club of the Thirty-second Ward, which 
grew to a membership of more than four thousand and soon was a famous and very 
powerful institution. 



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Washington Poiter, its instigator, was properly and wisely made its president 
and David S. Gear became its secretary. Its roll emiu'aced many of the prominent men 
of Chicago and a club having four thousand members confined within a single ward 
was surely distinguished by that fact alone. Incidentally, it is said that Porter was 
the earliest prophet in Ilhnoisof McKinley's destiny, he having, during a visit of the 
latter to Chicago seven months prior to his last nomination for the governorship of 
Ohio, pr phesied to 1 im his nomination and re-election to the latter office and like- 
wise his nomination for the Presidency in 18'.)6, which was then a long time away. 

The next incident of importance in the pre-convention campaign was the 
meeting of the State Central Committee at Springfield. Its purpose was the discus- 
sion by the members from various parts of the state of the conditions in their respec- 
tive districts and the arrangement of the preliminaries of the campaign. Its intend- 
ed nature may be inferred from its colloquial designation as a "love feast." 

Here were the fortunes of McKinley safe-guarded by the presence, as unosten- 
tatious spectators, of Charles G. Dawes, Charles U. Gordon, Elden C. DeWitt, Wash- 
ington Porter, W. D. Washburn, George V. Lauman and A. W. Clancy from Cook 
county, and W. W. Tracy, A. J. Lester, General C. W. Pavey, W. F. Calhoun, Judge 
C. W. Eaymoiid, \\ . (i. Edens and others from the state at large. 

The prioj- plans of the state organization comprised the nomination, afterward 
effected, of John Pi. Tanner for the governorship and the defeat of instructions to 
the national delegates for any presidential candidate whoever, thereby securing to 
themselves a very powerful leverage in the National Convention and practically in- 
suring post-election favor in exchange for pre-nomination aid. 

Already was McKinley's incipient strength among the people becoming mani- 
fest and the organization was consistently adverse to him because he was well known 
to be anything but a man of sculptor's clay. It was claimed that the committee was 
partial to anti-McKinley men in granting admission to its sessions. 

Senator Gullom had been induced, it is said against his judgement and desire, 
to leave Washington and attend the meeting tor the purpose of furthering his own 
perfunctory candidacy for the nomination. 

During the session ex-Governor Joseph W. Fifer spoke eloquently for the sen- 
ator and in his peroration chanced to refer incidentally to McKinley. There instantly 
ensued a scene of riotous enthusiasm that astonished and appalled the anti-McKinley 
contingent. The majority of the committeemen were brought to their feet by the 
simple utterance of the name and the demonstration lasted for several minutes. This 
was the first pronounced indication of the underlying McKinley sentiment that would 







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COLONEL GEORGE V. LAUMAN. 



HONORABLE GEORGE E. ADAMS. 





H. HORSEY PATTON. 



I). F. CKILLY. 



brook 110 attf mpt at subjugation by even the regularly constituted authorities of its 
own party. 

At this time it was that H. Dorsey Patton brought upon his loyal head the re- 
monstrance of his confreres for his persistent and vigorous espousal of McKinley's 
cause. From tlie counter of the Lelaud Hotel lie made a speech that did much to 
solidify the sentiment that afterward dominated so unexpectedly to the other leaders. 

TWU CLUBS. 

On the twelfth of February occurred the long contemplated banquet of the 
Marquette Club, at which Major McKinley was the guest of especial honor. It was in 
every respect an extraordinary affair. Its scene was the Auditorium Hotel. It was 
ably presided over by Elden C. De Witt, the president of the club, and its historic 
success was largely due to the tactful labors of the banquet committee, which, with 
Edward A. Bigelow as chairman, embraced George E. Adams, George R. Peck, George 
H. .Jenney and Fred W. Upham. John H. Johnson, chairman, and the members of 
the invitation committee, discharged their duties with great credit, and Charles U. 
Gordon, chairman of the reception committee, with the valued assistance of ex-pres- 
ident Alexander H. Eevell, ex-president George V. Lauman and some fifty other mem- 
bers of the club, was enabled to contribute a liberal share of the cause for the subse- 
quent gratification. Covers to the extraordinary number of one thousand and fifty 
were laid, entitling it to rank, lieyond all cavil, as the largest banquet ever served. 
The arrangements were perfect in every detail and spoke for the foresight and indus- 
try of aU concerned in their direction. 

It was there, under such rarely auspicious conditions, including the enthusiastic 
friendship of every man present, that Major McKinley delivered his soon famous 
oration on Abraham Lincoln, a speech that was as eloquent in substance as it was 
magnetic in delivery ; a speech that won applause from even his most radical political 
antagonists. 

The occasion was full of inspiration and the man responded to the opportunity. 
It was not designed to be a political speech but its effect on its author's unavowed 
candidacy was tremendous, though thi speaker was unwitting of it. It showed the 
public what sort of man was McKinley, and that simple knowledge of his character 
was as potent a leverage for his ambition as any man could covet. 

Senator John M. Thurston, of Nebraska, was another speaker whose eloquence 
met cordial response. 



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Altogether, in conception, direction and appreciation the affair was a tremen- 
dous success, and McKinley was deeply affected by the warmth of the friendship 
evinced, this sentiment being second only to his depth of feeling because it was the 
day of Lincoln's nativity. 

Marcus A. Hanna more readily perceived its political effect and his gratitude 
to the Marquette Club, which he designated a "mascot," was then and repeatedly ex- 
pressed with warmth to its members. 

Men who had attended the banquet for patriotic reasons left it full of personal 
partisanship and those whose adhesion to the orator dominated that to the memory of 
his subject left that night yet moi-e enthusiastic. 

A few days later sprang into life the organization that, perhaps after the Mar- 
quette Club, did more effective work than was done by any other similar institution 
in Chicago or elsewhere. 

It was the Business Men's Wilham McKinley Club of Cook County. 







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J. H. STRONG. 



Its immediate precursor was a mass-meeting, of which Alexander H. Eevell 
was chairman, in Central Music Hall. This meeting was provoked by the arrogant 
action of the Eepuhlican state organization in caUing premature, otherwise "snap," 
conventions in the various congressional districts, the palpable object of which was ad- 
verse to McKinley. The latter's friends considered that action was urgently neces- 
sary. Their appeals availed nothing, hence their public protest. 

By this meeting committees on action were appointed. They justified the de- 
scription. A private consultation followed East in its wake came the definite or- 
ganization of the club. Eevell was unanimously chosen president, A. W. Clancy 
became its secretary and Elden C. DeWitt was elected treasurer. The executive 
committee was made to embrace General McNulta, chairman, George V. Laumai 
George E. Adams, J. L. Fulton. D. F.Crilly, Edward A. Bigelow and Walter H. Chamb- 

erlin. 

The personnel of the hst of vice-presidents, which comprised Samuel W. Aller 
ton, William J. Chalmers, Charles U. Gordon, Washington Porter, J. C. Magill, J. (4. 
Everett, John Kralavec, Francis Beidler, Franklin S. Hanson, G. F. Swift, Peter 
Scheuttler, General Charles Fitzsimons, D. B. Scully, Edmund G. Fiedler, J. Mc- 
Gregor Adams, George W. Linn and Charles P. Stevens, and of the finance committee, 
before mentioned, was of great strength viewed in either social or commercial light. 

Eneigetic work at once was instituted. Correspondence was started with Mc- 
Kinley men in every part of the state, the nuclei consisting of the members of the 
state, county and precinct committees. 

C. W. Eaymond, of Watseka, the president, and W. G. Edens, of Galesburg, 
the state organizer of the Illinois Eepuhlican League, gave material aid in this work. 

Circulars, carefully thought out and adroitly written by General McNulta, were 
dispatched everywhere and almost immediately resulted in a mail of from two to five 
hundred letters daily. The writers of these became the mediums of a very effective 

propoganda. 

Headquarters were established and became a well of courage into which dipped 
many a man thirsty for good news. Funds for the prosecution of the settled plans 
werecollected without difficulty, J. L.Fultcm being, at the request of Samuel W. 

Allerton, the first contril ntor. 

AUerton and WiUiaras were men of such repute in the financial world that as 
solicitors of pecuniary aid for a good cause they were well nigh invincible. This was 
largely because they were known to have never asked it f.)r a bad one. Tliere is great 
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HONORABLE WILLIAM H, CALHOLLN, DECATUR. 



WALTER H. CHAMBERLIN. 









GEORGE H. JENNEY. 



DAVID S. GEER. 



General McNulta, who finds recreation in the direction of great affairs, was, 
during all of this period, giving his counsel and some more tangible aid to the club, 
to the wonderfully forceful state canvass in progress under direction of Dawes and to 
individual workers allied to the general system 

Credit is due to D. A. Fraley, his secretary, for much capable assistance. 

Clancy, Revell, Porter, Gordon, Fulton, Bigelow and Williams were probably 
the most active members of this most active institution and the lack of their hearti- 
ness and vigor would have seriously handicapped the general movement in many an 
important step and in many a vital hour. Practically, it was by the Marquette Club 
that McKinley's candidacy was publicly laum-hed and by the Business Men's Club of 
Cook County that it was equipped for saihng. 

A NOTABLE VICTORY. 

The seventh congressional district of Illinois in one short week achieved a fame 
that was national and a victory that is historical. 

Its convention was held on the fourth of March, 189(), a time when McKinley's 
nomination was likely but was far from assured. 

Its valiantly won endorsement of McKinley's candidacy by instructing for him 
its two national delegates was the first of the long series of local successes. Its date 
and its precedence in this action, coupled with the fact that it had been theretofore 
considered an almost invulnerable stronghold of the anti-McKinley contingent, made 
its emphatic endorsement pregnant with moral effect on other portions of the state 
whose conventions were imminent, on similar bodies in adjacent states which were 
soon to say yes or no and on the entire nation in an impalpable but very real way. 

Here it was that in convincing manner Charles U. Gordon demonstrated be- 
yond dispute liis extraordinary capacity in political generalship. His keen acumen 
and skillful vigor of mind had already served McKinley's cause in ways innumerable 
but here in definitive Hght he showed his power. 

George Edmund Foss, the sitting congressman, sought renomination and was 
peremptorily denied it by tlie regular organization. During his illness in Washington 
the district convention was called for a time ten days distant, with two Sundays in- 
tervening. This, like many subsequent events, may not have been just but it was 
shrewd. 

Foss instantly returned to Chicago. He discovered that general opinion said 
that his contestant for the nomination was practically invincible because of his cham- 
pionship by the dominant coterie of professional politicians. If this were to be dis- 
proven great vigor and perspicacity were needed. To stipply these qualities Foss 





f.hNERAL CHARLES FITZ SIMONS. 



FRANCIS HhlDI EK". 





FRED W. rPHAM. 



enlisted Gordon, who consented to take charge of what seemed an all but predeter- 
mined failure. 

Arrayed against them were the multiform and multifarious agencies of the 
regular party machinery. It was so-called mainly because of its regularity in pur- 
suit of office. Foss was full of faith in the power of the people l)ut the task was to 
get them to the primaries. 

Gordon was daunted by nothing. He knew that they could be awakened from 
the lassitude that everywhere and always breeds bad government. He rapidly laid his 
plans and carefuUy selected his lieutenants. 

In accurately analyzing the complexities of political conditions, in shrewdly 
planning for the utilization of obscure advantages and of then heartily working side by 
side with those under his able direction, he showed himself to be superior to many a 
manof greater pul)lic claims. Like Dawes, he was much too good a general to 
court publicity or that newspaper fame so blighting to success. This avoidance of 
personal advertising of even real triumph is a definite sign of the traits of leadership. 

His selection was a wise one for another reason than his special ability. He 
was known everywhere as a staunch McKinley man and this fact instantly enhsted on 
his side the large volume of McKinley sentiment theretofore indifferent to struggles 
comparatively local. 

Foss himself was partial to McKinley but considered that his duty as a repre- 
sentative was in aiding his constituents to secure their choice, not his, — unless they 
were identical. He, therefore, in his several speeches of the short but tierce cam- 
paign, tested the public preference and found it for McKinley in absolutely over- 
whelming ratio. Thus his duty and his desu-e trod the same path. 

Among the coadjutors of Foss and Gordon, Luther Latlin Mills was pre-emi- 
nent, because of the prodigious power of his personahty, because of his thorough c;on- 
versance with political methods, because of his keen penetration of the public temper 
and because of his very high position in the eyes of that public he read so well and 
trusted so fully. No man had greater influence and none more carefully conserved it^ 

-Tolm C. Scales, a prominent South Water street commission merchant, was 
untiring in his labor for McKinley and Foss and had the prior distinction of having 
originated and successfully organized the South Water Street McKinley Club, which 
by the strength of his personal effort attained a charter membership of three hundred 
and twenty of the merchants on that famous street. With Scales as its president 
this organization, as such and thi'ough he individual labors of its alwnys hard-work- 
ing members, exerted a very considerable effect over the whole of Cook county. 




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HONORABLE CHAKLE^. W. RAYMOND, WATSEKA. 



COLONEL CHAK-LES P. BRYAN. ELMHiiRST. 





WILLIAM G. EDENS, GALESBURG. 



HONORABLE'(,EOK'(,E R. LETOURNEAU. KANKAKEE. 



Sidney C. Eastman, ill presiding over the convention with his characteristic 
firmness and urbanity, put a tittingclimax on his virile and telling work in the field. 

George H. Jenney was a lieutenant of great efficiency and his brain helped to 
bridge with assurance many a chasm of logical doubt. 

Earl L. Hambleton, in concert with Scale?, made the great fight in that por- 
tion of the district containing the powerful Sucilish vote and won it after a herculean 
struggle. 

Daniel F. Flaiinery and George W. Powell, of Edgewater, were shi-ewd, strong 
and indefatigable workers and their aid was worth much to the cause of the people's 
rights. 

The greatest majority achieved in any district whatever was the result of the 
brilliant campaigning of Ben M. Smith, a young attorney resident in Roger's Park. 
Here it was that the above record was made. Smith's strength told in other portions 
of Evanston township, in the twenty-fifth ward of Chicago and in Lake county. 

He, too, was the man who in the convention so ably placed Foss in nomination 
and broached McKinley's name with result so reassuring to the friends of instructions. 

It is seen that the need was felt of calling into requisition the energy of youth 
and the political sagacity that is so frequently a concomitant of legal experience. 

Among those early enlisted to supply these needs was W. R. Heath, who in the 
convention was made a member of the committee on credentials. During the eight- 
day campaign Heath was one of the leaders of the hard fight in the twenty-sixth ward. 
He succeeded in shrewdly enlisting many men whose antipathy to Foss' opponents 
was a greater motive than was their partiality to Foss himself, but whose aid was no 
less valuable for that. 

Washington Van Horn, subsequently a presidential elector, and Samuel Powell 
of Ravenswood, labored side by side with Heath and helped to render possible the suc- 
cess that at tii'st seemed so remote. 

William Herbert Johnson, of Glencoe, distinguished himself anew, for hi puli- 
tics he was not so much a tyro as were some, by his authorship of the resolutions for 
McKinley, that as a report from his committee, were so triumphantly adopted. In the 
committee on resolutions he had to fight for their passage because some of the mem- 
bers asserted that endorsement of McKinley was "poor politics." It was only after 
two conferences that .lohnson's motion carried. The convention considered the move 
anything but poor politics and adopted the report \vith great enthusiasm. 

Herbert R. Wilson was president of the .Junior Twenty-fifth Ward Repuldican 
Club and was active in valuable work in that, the hardest fought section of the whole 





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HONORABLE GEORGE EDMUND FOSS. 



tUstrict. 

Ill Ev.instoD, Johu Cliild, editor of the Evaustoii Index, did most a.ssiduous and 
profitable work and with the energetic cola boration of George P. Englehard, accom- 
plished niuch good. 

E. P. Chatfield, the delegate from the Argy e Park district, in which was the 
cl.sest finish of all, ably directed the Foss forces and with McKinley at the top of his 
ticket was at last victorious. 

In the twenty-lifth ward of Chicago the Foss Piepublican League, Charles U 
Gordon, i:)resident, and W 1!. Piennacker, secretary, deserves mention as a reully po 
ti nt f.icior in the general result. Rennacker accomplished great good by his eonscien- 
ti( us efforts among the young men of his locality. 



In general it may be said that the victory rested with the young men of the 
district, business men to whom primaries were strange things, men who never be- 
fore had known of half of the political strength vested in their own modest selves. 

The struggle was full of incidents that are as amusing in the perspective of time 
as th y were portentous of dread in the crucial hour. The devices of the organiza- 
tion, not so much to get votes for its own candidate as to deflect support from Foss, 
and the maneuvers of the alert dissenters to crush trickery by sheer weight of num- 
bers would make a liook-full of humor and interest. 

The Foss men had gre it difficulty in finding vehicles to hire. They found it 
almost impossible to rent halls for meetings, for with few exceptions the available 
places had been rented for the whole period with no intent to use them. It seemed 
that Foss' opponents were acute enough to fear more than anything else public 
gatherings in his Itehalf. They apparently knew that the path of the martyr leads 
often to triumph, yet illogically they sought to emphasize martyrdom. They spent 
money with freedom that forbade discretion and they devised numberless schemes to 
mislead the careless. 

For instance, they sent broadcast appeals for Foss with a duplication of the 
arguments against themselves that were being used by the Foss managers. These 
circulars contained even donnnciation of themselves as a body, l)ut enclosed was a 
headless ticket bearing the names of anti-Foss delegates. Tliese methods proved vain, 
however, against the unremitting energy they sought to nullify. 

Tlie adherents of Foss and JMcKinley deluged the district with buttons ; they 
formed processions of women and children ; they placed in the car-liarns signs adjur- 





SIDNEY E. EASTMAN. 



LUTHER LAELIN MILLS. 





EARL L. HAMBLETON. 



JOHN C. -SCALES. 



ing voters to exercise their rights in behalf of clean government ; they called attention 
to their activity by hiring men to ring bells in the streets ; they enlisted, by the justice 
of their cause, the most active services of all of the great newspapers and lastly but 
most important of all, they apportioned the territory between them and assured a 
personal call on every voter in the district. A house-to-house canvass it was and it 
brought to the primaries many men of wealth or pre-occupation, known as the "four 
year voters." For these it was an unaccustomed sacrifice, l)ut they were sliow^n that 
never had an issue between the people and the politicians lieen more clearly dctined, 
and that the sacrifice of time and comfort was in a cause of vital interest to themselves. 

In the vulnerable business record of the "regular" candidate they had a strong 
argument as a gift from himself. Sunday-rest scruples were forsaken for the time, 
and the work went on without recess, and in the cases of the leaders, actually without 
sleep for much of the time. 

On the Saturday prior to primary day the Cliicago Record hurled a bomb of 
grape and canister into the camp of the anti-Foss men. It published conspicuously 
an expose of the questionable business connections of their candidate and of the 
earher sources of the wealth he was reputed to be so freely using to further his politi- 
cal desires. The article evoked similar attacks from the Times-Herald and the 
Evening Post and the bold action of these papers seemed to demolish the remnant of 
a chance that still remained with the object of their charges. 

The cap-stone of the success of Foss was a circular of personal appeal ad- 
dressed by Luther Laflin Mills to his fellow citizens, exhorting them to assert for 
once their right to select their own candidate. This exerted all of the power that 
was in its author's name and this was great. 

In the locality where hved Foss, Gordon, Mills and several other active leaders, 
they brought out the largest vote ever recorded in Cook county in a primary district, 
the number being nearly eight hundred. 

McKinley's endorsement in this district, the first in the country to hold a con- 
vention was practically the first f<ircefiil blow at the "favorite son" idea then rather 
prevalent and which was very gener;illy supposed to rest on the selfishness of poli- 
ticians. 

At the time it was said by the ehanipions of Senator Shelby M. Cniloni Ili:it 
the two delegates there secured would costMcKinley dearly. This prophesy was nega- 
tively fultilled when the next congressional convention, held in the seventeenth dis- 
trict wherein resided Cullom himself, instructed for McKinley. For this peculiarly 
effective achievement great credit is awarded to W. F. C'alliDun, of Dei-.itur, W. W. 




HONORABLE WILLIAM J. CALHOUN, DANVILLE. 



Tracy, A. J. Lester and to the very large influence of ex-Governor Richard T. Oglesby. 

THE STATli CONVl-NTION. 

The culmination of many months of diplomacy, strife and success was m the 
Illinois State Convention in Springfield. 

Failure to secure McKinley instructions here would have meant public dispar- 
agement of the strenuous skill of months past; it would have meant the obliteration of 
every success theretofore nchieved ; it would have meant that the extraordinary man- 
agement of the state work by Dawes, who bad attained thorough control of ninety of 
the one hundred and two counties in the state, had been futile; it would have uieRiit 
perceptible diminution of the chance of tlie nomination of McKinley in St. Louis. 

Success here would mean the definite establishment of the peoples' right to 
choose their own servants; it would mean a further elevation of Illinois in the scale of 
political importance, and it would come very near to meaning a certainty of McKin- 
ley's easy triumph in the national convention, so much a pivotal state already was 
Illinois. 

So absolutely did the McKinley delegates dominate numerically that the oppo- 
sition strove only to prevent all reference to instructions, for it was more thanolivious 
that they would be overwhelmed on the issue. Dawes, to whose complete leadership 
there were but few dissenters, McNulta, Gordon and Revell, who presided over several 
important conferences of the above men, were the directors of every move in or by 
the convention as a whole. By them the program evolved by Dawes was carried out 
By them WiUiam -T. Calhoun, of Dan\'ille, was appointed the absolute despot of the 
floor. He was selected because of his great ability as a parliamentarian, his rare 
good judgment and lightning perception, his decisiveness of action and his steadfast 
devotion to McKinley. In short, because of his cool head and warm heart. 

George Hunt, ex-Attorney General of the state, was selected to act witli Cal- 
houn and to second him in everything at every stage. His ability and discretion 
were well attested by his past. 

WiUiam P. Williams was detailed to second the motion to adopt the resolutions 
of instruction and to speak in its support. 

A caucus was held on April twenty-sixth, the Sunday evening prior 
to the convention. It embraced a large number of McKinley men, perhaps too large 
a number for smooth and elYective action. In this meeting some personal ambitions 
and their inevitable product, personal jealousy, tried to obscure the primary object of 
the gathering. 







COLONEL. WILLolAM L. DI-STIN, QUINCY. 



DOCTOR GEORGE A. ZELL-ER, PEORIA. 






GENERAI THOMAS O. OSBORN 



FRANKLIN S. HANSON. 



The men who had for two years worked incessantly, in many cases at serious 
cost to their personal affairs, were emphatically indisposed to jeopard the cause they 
had brought so near to success by transferring or dividing authority at the most criti- 
cal moment of all. The complainants, who were more than anything else opportun- 
ists, counseled delay in the determination of the plan of action on the floor. 

Then Dawes, as their principal target, gave one of his now well-known talks, 
that was so vehement and so positive that it was not soon forgotttn by its hearers. 
It was logical but it was full of iron. He insisted that immediate adoption of a policy 
■was essential, for the quality of decisiveness was a pre-requisite in the handling of 
large bodies of men. Hesitation would provoke pubUc skepticism and would send 
them into the convention a demoralized mob instead of the compact organization they 
desired to be. He demanded that the order of business be so changed as to place the 
vote on instructions before the consideration of state candidates and so forth. The 
fear was that the anti-McKinley minority might, under the old order of business- 
nominate themselves and at once declare the convention adjourned, thus effectually 
disposing of instructions for anybody. 

The only way to insure against this was to settle the presidential question at 
the very start and to completely divorce it from all other questions. This would pre- 
clude its entanglement with personalities and factionalities. 

Dawes' terrific force of demeanor wavered the dissenters and when he command- 
ed a test of loyalty by asking the friends of McKinley to rise and all others to leave a 
caucus where they did not rightfully belong, the roomful rose as one. Thereafter 
there were no recalcitrants, and the shrewd plans then approved held staunchly to- 
gether the nine hundred McKinley delegates and by the quick-witted forcefulness of 
Calhoun the battle was fought in sharp, clear strokes. 

Williams, who had prepared an able speech to second Calhoun's motion, dis- 
cerned conditions that made long arguments, however strong, inadvisable, and he 
therefore loyally volunteered to forego the speech entirely, though his decision forfeit- 
ed a strong feature of the original plan. 

William E. Mason also yielded his own ambition and laid his costly sacrifice 
on the altar of the cliief. He had sought and had gotten well in hand an endorse- 
ment of his candidacy for an United States seuatorship. This he fi-eely and volunta- 
rily refused to grasp because it might endanger the more vital endorsement of McKin- 
ley, whose close friend and adherent he had been in the national congress. He had 
stumped Ohio for the man of Canton and was much too strongly and consistently his 
friend to even remotely jeopard his triumph now. 




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EDWIN F. BROWN. 



The woikl is well aware of the result of the iiatioi;al convention in St. Louis, of 
wliicli the events forming the subject of this article were so large a factor. From the 
incidents of this period, in this state, were gleaned many of the ingredients that finally 
filled the crucible of effort with the compound of success. 




HON. WILLIAM E. MASON 




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A ROSTER OF CONSTANCY. 



He who would record in detail the flow of the lay republican tide in Illinois, the 
tide which ilrowned the protests of the self-seekers and engulfed the tyranny of individ- 
ual ambitions, would find his completed work more a catalogue of names than a history 

of events. 

So many are the men, all over the state, whose distinctive characteristics and 
affiliations were of real value in the crusade for McKinley's nomination that, for the 
sake of symmetry and euphony, their long marks of credit are gathered here rather than 
interspersed in the narrative. 

The publisher of this volume confesses to no desire else than to give credit 
wherever it may be due and to receive credit for his impartial intent. He recognizes 
that there is a large number of men to whose earnest and able endeavors much of 
McKinley's local success is due, and it is his regret that of that number only a part are 
within his obser\-ation, — upon which this book necessarily rests. 

They all are men whose adherence to McKinley antedated the certainty of his 
success; men whose work in his behalf had the vigor of spontaneity and the constancy 
of ingenuous admiration; men who cannot be charged with having gotten "into the 
band-wagon," l)ecause the "band-wagon" was built up under them. 

Many of them spent their money, all of them spent their time and gave of their 
pe.Kerience in intensifying the properties and materializing the form of the great 
nelnilous preference of the republican party for William McKinley. Its tangible state 
was soon demonstrated b\- the force of its progress and the ease with which it crushed 
its opponents. 

Appended is mention of some of those whose earnestness and ability most largely 
contributetl to the great finale. 

R. D. Sherman, of Kankakee, was one of the founders of the republican party in 
Illinois, he having, in September, 1S56, been one of the nine men who signed the call 
for a mass convention in the interest of John C. Fremont. By this gathering he was 
delegated to represent his district in the state convention in Bloomington, wherein those 
men added not to their principles, but bound together these principles with the name 
republican. A son of Indiana, in company with Oliver D. Morton, Caleb 15. Smith 
and other men of their sort, he went with them from whigdom to the reinililicanisni to 
which he has since clung. Since the inception of the party he has been a delegate to 
its every state convention. In that of the current year strong efforts were made to 
secure his support to Senator Shelby M. Cullom, but his loyalty to McKiidey, while 
prompted by his own desire, was also, as he well knew, a perfect reflex of the desire of 
his constituents. He was a strong personal friend of General John .\. Logan, with whom 
he often campaigned. He has been twice sheriff of Kankakee county, and has held other 
responsible political positions that are ample evidence of both his ability and his party 
standing. 





H(WOKABLF GEORGE HUNT. 





CAPTAIN THOMAS J. GOEN. 



GAPI AIN to. h. (jOODING. 



Among those men whose unostentatious adherence to McKinley's cause was of 
material vahie to it in its incipiency, few stand nearer to the fore than does Colonel 
Charles P. Bryan. His early labors in the eighth and in other districts, and the aid 
he rendered to General Grosvenor in Washington during the preceding winter, won 
praise as well as tlianks from the pioneer leaders. He is by occupation a writer, and is 
an ex-president of the Colorado Editorial Association, an ex-member of the Colorado 
legislature and a former aid-de-camp on the staffs of four different governors, including 
ex-Governors Oglesby and Fifer. From these connections is derived his well-earned 
title of colonel. He has served three terms in the Illinois legislature and can point to 
a number of statutes now operative as the result of his introduction and espousal. 
Also, the Columbian Exposition profited much by the diplomatic energy that he 
employed during his European trips in its behalf. During this tour he secured audi- 
ences with the various royal rulers and with Pope Leo, and his able representations 
enlisted their active interest and co-operation. 

Colonel William L. Distin. whose residence is in Quincy, but whose political 
reputation is inter-state, actively promoted the progress of the McKinley campaign in 
all of its successive stages, from county, through district and state entanglements, to and 
beyond its national triumph in vSt. Louis. He possesses unusual executive ability 
and is recognized as one of the best organizers in the state. His able endeavors were 
fully appreciated by his fellow leaders. His personal qualities in.sure the popularity 
which he enjoys among all classes. He is past connnander of the department of Illinois, 
Grand Army of the Republic, and takes a deep interest in the welfare of the organ- 
ization. His facial resemblance to McKinley is striking enough to have lead to some 
interesting experiences. 

Major-general Thomas O. Oslx)rn, of Chicago, is a native of Licking county, Ohio, 
to which McKinley's birthplace is adjacent. After his graduation, in 1854, from the 
University of Ohio, he read law with General Lew Wallace, and began its practice in 
Chicago in 1859. When the great rebellion occurred it was he who raised the thirty- 
ninth regiment of Illinois infantry, soon famous as "Yates' Phalanx," which, by 
Lincoln's selection, became the representative of Illinois in the Army of the Potomac. 
After effective .service in the region of the Shenandoah valley and in the siege of Fort 
Sumpter he was detailed by Grant to aid him in the siege of Richmond. For brilliant 
work there, directly leading to the surrender of Lee, Osborn received promotion to the 
rank of major-general. In short, his war record is epitomized in his shoulder-straps 
and a useless arm. He was one of the original managers of the National Soldiers' Home. 
He has, likewise, a creditable record in statesmanship. He was for two years a 
member of the Mexican International Commission, and, by President Grant's appoint- 
ment, minister of the United States to the Argentine Republic, at which post he remained 
for thirteen years. Upon his return he at once became again a factor in republican poli- 
tics, and recently, pursuant of his desire for years, he became a valued follower of 
McKinley's political fortune. He is a forceful campaigner and his co-operation was 
warmly welcomed. 

Isaac Miller Hamilton, ex-vice-president of the Illinois Republican League and now 
chairman of the campaign committee and a member of the executive committee of that 




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J. B. BARNES, PEORIA. 



HOWARD O. HILoTON. ROCKFORD. 





ALDERMAN JOHN O'NElLo. 



JOSEPH E. SMITH, KANKAKEE, 



organization, resides in Cissna Park. He has probably as wide a circle of acquaintance 
among influential republicans as has any other man in the state. This fact enabled him, 
in conference with the McKinley leaders, to throw much light on the value of various 
political elements. 

\V. F. Calhoun, whose newspaper, the Decatur Daily Republican, was among the 
first of the well-known journals of the state to urge the nomination of protection's 
greatest apostle, won peculiar distinction and especial credit by his successful direction 
of the campaign for McKinley instructions in the seventeenth district, in which was 
the home of his principal local competitor. Calhoun's political record includes several 
terms in the Illinois general assembly and the speakership of its thirty-fifth term. In 
the late war he served in the Shenandoah valley in a brigade which co-operated with 
McKinley's brigade. 

Samuel E- Gross, as a substantial citizen and as a promotor of what he considered to 
be the public's material interests, freely gave his whole influence toward achieving the 
nomination of the apostle of protection. His personal interest was likewise a stimulus, 
he having been a fellow-officer of McKinley during the war of the rebellion. He 
personally conducts the great real estate bu.siness established by him in 1880, since which 
time he has laid out and established nineteen thriving suburban towns about Chicago, 
involving a tremendous aggregate of money each year. He is a member of the 
Chicago, Union League, Marquette, Union, Chicago Athletic and other prominent 
clubs. He is also active in the affairs of U. S. Grant Post, No. 28, Grand Army of 
the Republic, the Western Society of the Army of the Potomac, and is the commander 
of the Illinois Commandery of the Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United 
States, deputy governor in the state of Illinois of the Society of Colonial Wars, vice- 
president of the Illinois Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and captain 
of the Chicago Continental Guard. His war record is good, he having been one of the 
youngest captains in the service. He has been a Chicagoan for thirty-one years, and 
has been identified with its every stage of development. 



Henry Wulff is one of the men who, by their occupancy of high office in the 
commonwealth of Illinois, have become national characters, and his political record 
unquestionably stations him in the ranks of the very early "original McKinley men." 
In 1892 he was a delegate to the National Republican Convention in ^Minneapolis, and 
there worked and voted to give the presidential nomination to the man who was destined 
to be, four years thereafter, the triumphant candidate. Again, in the pre-nomination 
campaign, he threw to McKinley his entire per.sonal and political influence, particularly 
in the striking contest in the seventh district, where the best of work was needed and 
was forthcoming. During two terms, covering a period of eight years, WuliT served 
as clerk of Cook county, and was the recognized leader of the republicans of that 
locality. In 1894 his party record seemed to entitle him to a higher post, which, in 
the form of the treasurership of Illinois, was given to him by a large majority of the 
electorate. Wulff' s business activity is largely in real estate, and in that he is now 
engaged. 





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SAMUEl. E. MAGlLLn. 




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DE WITT C. RIKER, MOMENCE. 



GKORGE P. PNGl-EHARD. 



E. P. Fassett, well known as "delegate number one," represented Chicago's 
thirty-second ward in the state convention. The above designation sprang from the 
fact that he was the first of the Cook county delegates to publicly declare for McKinley 
instructions. His pre-convention work for the candidate of his choice is much appre- 
ciated, as is also his voluntary aid given without charge to the national committee 
throughout the campaign. He was for years identified with banking in Chicago and in 
various other parts of the state, and is regarded as one of the most effective republican 
workers in the thirty-second ward. 

Owen F. Aldis is one of the most prominent of Chicago's many substantial citizens. 
His interest in public affairs has never emerged from the stage of activity and has never 
entered the stage of obtrusiveness. His success in business and his public standing 
invest his opinions with unquestionable public influence, and it is therefore true that his 
earnestness in McKinley's behalf has been not lacking in results. He is a native of 
Vermont, the chief justiceship of whose supreme court has been filled for nearly forty 
years by, first his grandfather and then his father, who presided until his death, a few 
vears ago. Yale college claims him as an alumnus. 



General Charles Fitz SiuKjns, like many another man with a good war record, is 
one of the "original" McKinley men. His warm friendship for the republican leader 
dates from the war, when he was inspector-general on the staff of General Crooke. 
The general, who is now well known as a contractor for great public works, entered 
the army in the April of 1861, and four years later had risen to the rank of brevet- 
brigadier-general. In 1881 he accepted command of the first regiment, Illinois National 
Guard. Subsequently he was for twelve years brigadier-general in command of the 
first brigade. 

George A. Zeller, who is the chairman of the Peoria county central committee, 
holds the office as recognition of his services to his party, first as a subordinate and later 
as manager of its affairs in his county and city in the campaign of 1894, and in the 
Peoria municipal election of 1895- He was born in Woodford county, lUiuois, and, 
since comiileting his education in the State university at Champaign, has been very suc- 
cessful as a physician and as a business man no less than as a politician. In the recent 
state convention he aided the McKinley leaders to so alter the order of business as to 
place the question of a presidential endorsement before the state nominations. This 
action, which was not connnon among candidates for state offices, showed that his 
loyalty to McKinley took precedence of his regard for his own fortunes. 

J. H. Strong, who is the general manager of the United States Life Insurance 
Company, is a Pennsylvanian, forty-three years old, who has resided in Chicago for the 
last twelve years. His repuljlicanism is inherent and is only less intense and of longer 
standing than is his devotion to McKiidey the individual, as distinct irom McKinley the 
republican. His work as a member of the original finance committee of the Business 
Men's McKinley Club, of Cook county, was of very great efficacy and was accomplished 
with ease the greater because of his position and wide acquaintance as a man of affairs. 
He is a member of the Union League, Calumet, Washington Park and Hamilton 





WILLIAM HEHBEKT lOHNbON. 



COLONEL JAMBS C. BALDRIDGB. 





MICHAEL COLLINS, PEOTONE. 



W. I^ HBATH. 



clubs, vice-president of the Chicago Commons, a trustee of Plviiiouth church, an active 
member of the board of education, and chairman of the organization committee of the 
American Honest Money League. 

Edwin F. Brown did a great deal of work for McKinley both in Cook county and 
in Springfield,— work which was not less effective because it was quiet. He is the 
president of Brown Brothers' Manufacturing Company, is a son of Edwin Lee Brown, 
and has been the president and was one of the founders of the American Humane 
Society. He is a valued business associate of Charles G. Dawes. 



Calvin Earnest Brown gave, directly, nurch aid to the McKinley canvass, and 
indirectly, by his active interest in defense of the candidacy of Congressman Foss in the 
seventh district, fully as much more. It was he who first wrote to P'oss, who was then 
in Washington enjoying quiet assurance of the loyalty of the local leaders, warning him 
of the plan to defeat him for re-nomination in the district convention. This letter was 
dated January twenty-fifth, 1896, and marked the beginning of the great conte.st that 
caught and held the nation's eye and by its outcome won the nation's praise. 



Samuel E. Magill is a business man of Chicago, who, acting with other men 
theretofore not identified with politics, was enabled by his earnestness, his financial 
connections and his native energy to materially aid the McKinley forces both during 
and after the preliminary organization. His alliance with those forces was but evidence 
of the preference he was known to feel. He attended, early in the year, the conference 
at the Union Leai;ue Club in which General William M. Osborne took part. 



J. B. Barnes, of Peoria, is a journalist whose ability has always i)een vi,>;orousl\- 
used in support of the republican party. His newspaper, the Peoria Journal, is one 
of the best-known papers in the state, and its uncompromising advocacy of William 
McKinley was one of the most potent factors in securing instructions in the fourteenth 
congressional district. This district is distingui.shed as one of the first three in the 
United States that endorsed for the presidency the man of Ohio. 



Randall H. White, for the last thirteen years one of Chicago's justices of the peace, 
was a cla.ssmate of McKinley in the Albany Law School, New York state, in 1S67. He 
has quietly aided McKinley 's political advancement since first the presidency l)ecame 
his obvious destiny. 

John B. Jeffery, who was a delegate to the state convention from the third ward 
of Chicago, is one of only three men who, having been elected delegates on a ticket 
bearing McKinley's name, remained true to their trust. Local conditions were at that 
time such that this was a severe test of loyalty. In the convention his xote for McKin- 
ley instructions but comported with his earnest work in the past for the Ohioan. He 
has been a Chicagoan for thirty-tliree years, and during that period his achie\ements as' 
a journalist and as a man of busine.ss have made him prominent on the roster of Chi- 
cago's successful citizens. From a reportorial position on The Republican, under Charles 
A. Dana, he passed through the various gradations of newspaper work and succeeded 
in issuing the first paper printed in Chicago after the great fire. This edition appeared 




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JOHN H lAl IjMADGE. 



within twenty-four hours after the catastrophe. His eminence as a practical printer 
was afterward recognized by President Garfield, who offered to him the position of public 
printer. He is high in masonry, and is a member of the B. P. O. E. and of the Union 
League, Washington Park and Press clubs, of which latter he was one of the principal 
founders. 

J. C. Baldridge, of the thirty-second ward, Chicago, has the distinction of having 
written to McKinley a letter of prophecy and encouragement just after the election of 
1892, and of having been one of the few men who at that time of disparagement of 
the prophet of protection, sent commendation. In Baldridge's home ward his wisdom 
in coupling McKinW with James R. Mann in the latter' s congressional contest was the 
means of cementing the interests of both without cost to either. 



Walter H. Chamberlin is one of the "original " McKinley men of Illinois, and one 
whose energetic work and professional standing materially aided McKinley in the pre- 
convention campaign. He was educated in Detroit, and prior to leaving there for 
Chicago, which he did in 1890, he was a partner in the practice of patent and other law 
with Wells W. Leggett, son of General M. D. Leggett, who was commissioner of 
patents under President Grant. His practice has been successfully continued in Chicago. 



General A. C. Hawley actively assisted Congressman Foss in his notable struggle 
for renomination. After the victory there he began a tour of the state in McKinley's 
behalf. Paying his own expenses, he attended fifty-three county conventions, working 
always to secure McKinley instructions. The result was manifest in the state conven- 
tion, which he also attended. He is a resident of the twenty-first ward of Chicago. 



Major C. A. Vaughan was the organizer of the Cook County McKinley club. 
This institution, which was chartered in September, 1893, was one of the earlier 
organizations having in view nothing but championship of William McKinley's pres- 
idential campaign. He resides in the twenty-sixth ward of Chicago, and it was 
there, in the seventh congressional district, that most of his political work was done. 



David S. Geer was secretary of the William McKinley Club of the thirty-second 
ward of Chicago, which was organized on the twenty-second of January, 1896. This 
club acliieved the feat of enrolling twenty-eight hundred members within ten days from 
its organization and became at once a recognized political factor. 



George R. Letourneau is an American of French-Canadian extraction, and a man 
whose active connection with the republican party dates from its birth. He early 
championed McKinley's cause and assisted in creating a favorable sentiment in his home 
county of Kankakee. He has been clerk of the circuit court of his county, sheriff and 
later county treasuier of the same, and is now a state .senator. 



C. W. Bickel was the president of the McKinley Republican Club of the thirteenth 
ward, the date of whose organization is August first, 1893. He was one of the dele- 
gates from the thirteenth w-.rd, nl' Chicago, who voted for McKinley instructions. 





WILLIAM R. KERR. 



HONORABLE ISAAC M, HAMH-TON. CISSNA PARK. 




HONORABLE RANDALL H. WHITE. 



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Howard O. Hilton, one of the prominent j'oung republicans of the state, is the 
political editor of the Rockford Republic. He wrote, and introduced in the ninth 
district convention, the resolutions instructing; its national delegates for McKinle}'. He 
is now serving his second term as a member of the republican state central committee 
and is likewise an active factor of the executive connnittee. 



Sidney P. Hostler, a delegate from the thirteenth ward of Chicago to the state 
convention, is a native of Ohio. He is a young man, but has had no little success in 
political life His support of McKinley has been unswerving. He is a mason, a 
member of the Menoken Club, of the National Union and of various other societies. 



Charles L. Hammimd is a prominent real estate dealer, and rejiresented the 
thirtv-second ward of Chicago in the state convention. He was selected as a delegate 
without his knowledge and at once undertook to learn the choice of his constituents by 
sending postal cards to the voters. Eighty per cent of the responses favored McKinley 
and gave to him the satisfaction of voicing at the same time the vvi.shes of both his ward 
and himself. He is a graduate of West Point, has served as an officer in the Third 
United States Cavalry and is a member of the Loyal Legion. 



J. E. Smith, one of Kankakee's prominent business men, is young in active political 
work and until this campaign did little more than persistently vote the republican ticket. 
This year, however, he was one of the " originals " in his section and his energy was 
of no slight value. He was born in the county in which he now resides. 



Fred W. Upham has never yet missed an opportunity to vote for William McKinley. 
He began in 1892, when, as representative of the eighth district of Wisconsin, he first 
found it possible to officially express his admiration for his party's future leader. He 
was born in Wisconsin in 1861 and in 1895 1^^ moved to Chicago, where he is now a 
prominent lumberman. 

John O'Neil, widely known as oneof Chicago's most able and industrious aldermen, 
was a representative of the thirty-fourth ward of Chicago in the state convention. He 
was there one of the strongest advocates of McKinley instructions. His early activity 
in behalf of track elevation in Chicago has won for him credit as the father of that 
movement. 

A. F. Doremus, one of the delegates from Chicago's eleventh ward, and who also 
represents that ward on the Cook county republican central committee, is credited with 
having been a McKinley man from the time when the Ohioan's candidacy was first 
broached. He it was who named the delegates from his ward who refused, despite all 
pressure, to abjure what they considered was their duty. 



John Z. Vogelsang, of Chicago, served in the state convention as a delegate from 
the twenty-first ward. He is well known in commercial circles and his political activity 
was of value to McKinley both in general and in tin- convention, wherein he voted for 
instructions. 







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PETER BROSSEAU, KANKAKEE. 



SIDNEY P. HOSTLER. 





JOHN T. CLYNh, JOLIET. 



AMZI W. STRONG. 



Josiah Cratty, by his effective work as president of the McKinley Chib of Oak 
Park, Cook county, won a position as a delegate to the county convention. Later, as a 
delegate to the state convention, he worked in conjunction with the McKinley forces 
and accomplished much good. 

Albert J. vStone, whose republicanism dates from his fifteenth year, when he enlisted 
in the seventy -seventh Illinois infantry, served McKinley well both in and out of the 
eleventh ward delegation from Chicago. He is a member of the Illinois, Lincoln and 
Cook County Republican Marching clubs, of Columbia Post, number 706, Grand Army 
uf the Republic, and of the Union Veteran League. 



L. J- Ray nor, of the real estate firm of Paige & Raynor, Joliet. is one of the earlier 
Illinois admirers of Major McKinley, in whose ]iresidential destiny he has believed ever 
since the death of Blaine. He has iit-ver been else than a republican and his party's 
appreciation is manifest in his present secretaryship of the Will count>- central com- 
mittee. He was a vigorous supporter of McKinley instructions in his county's 
convention. Local masonic bodies count him prominent. 



Addison A. Adair was the organizer of the original McKinley Club of Oak Park. 
Cook county, which assumed form early in May, 1896, and soon attained a member- 
ship of over two hundred voters. Its campaign work, like that of its sponsor, was good. 
The latter is the senior vice-commander of the department of Illinois, Grand Army of 
the Republic. 

John W. Parker, who efficiently served as secretary to the McKinley forces in 
Springfield, made himself well known in the state when in 1894 he aided William E. 
Mason in his tour. His ability as a man of affairs was acknowledged by Mayor Swift, 
who appointed him to the assistant city sealership. He, throughout the campaign for 
the nomination, co-operated with the McKinley leaders. 



James L. Campbell, whose connection with the McKinley movement dates back to 
October tenth, 1891, when was chartered the McKinley Political and Social Club of 
Cook County, is now serving his seventh term in the city council of Chicago. He was 
one of the twelfth ward delegates from Chicago to the state convention and there 
officially voiced his McKinley preference. He has been from the first the president of 
the club above mentioned, which had for secretaries W'illiam H. Phelps, who has held 
several political offices of trust, and John N. Cunning, who has creditably served on 
the board of commissioners of Cook county. The club met McKinley in the winter of 
1892 and at the Grand Pacific hotel President Campbell delivered to him an address, 
the appreciative response to which is one of the chili's most pleasant recollections. 



Amzi W. Strong, whose energetic fight in the first primary district of the 
twenty-fifth ward of Chicago resulted in a majority for Foss of forty-seven votes in the 
home district of his opponent, is a well-known lawyer. His adherence to McKinley is 
of long standing, and from the first, prompted his constant counsel and aid to his 
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A. F. DOREMUS. 



O. N. HUTCHINSON. 





JOHN W. bAI-lrADAY. 



JOHN M. OK'HEN. 



A. R. Adams, well known as a member of the Wisconsin State Board of Emigration 
and as an early and active McKinley advocate, is a native ot Scotland. He is president 
of the A. B. Adams Land Company and of the Chewelah Mining and Milling Company, 
of Washington, and his identification with colonization in the western and northwestern 
states enabled him to do valuable work through correspondence. By his thorough 
knowledge of the character of the colonists, his dictation of letters to them in McKin- 
ley's behalf carried great weight. 

John T. Clyne was born in New York state in 1S57 and until recent years was 
known as an owner and fancier of finely-bred horses. He is a resident of Joliet and 
was a delegate from there to the state convention. He supported the plan to in.struct 
for McKinley, but three others from his county standing with him. 

De Witt C. Riker, of Momence, is a successful merchant, whose adherence to the 
republican party has not depended on preferment. He is one of the two, ( out of the 
twelve, ) delegates from Kankakee county to the state convention who voted for 
McKinlev instruciions. He is an energetic worker for the republican cause and his 
partisan stabilitv prompted him in the November of 1892 to write to Major McKinley 
an expression of his confidence in the latter's future vindication. He still preserves 
McKinley 's letter of acknowledgement. He is a native of Vermont. 

Albert W. Brickwood, of Chicago, has been a republican since he reached his 
majority and a McKinley man since the latter's achievement of national fame. He has 
been a member of the bar since 1876 and has resided in the same precinct during the 
past seventeen years. He was one of the stalwarts of the eleventh ward delegation 
tfi the state convention. 



Michael Collins is the president of the Citizens' Bank, of Peotone. In the Will 
county delegation to the state convention he was the leader of the pro-instructions 
sentiment, which was held by but three of the others. His business standing and his 
earnest belief in McKinley served the latter well. He was a member of the thirty- 
second Illinois general assembly and has served contnuiou.sly for twenty years on the 
board of commissioners of Will county. 

Peter Brosseau has taken an active part in the republican politics of Illinois ever 
since his first vote helped to swell the majority for Abraham Lincoln. Three times has 
lie been elected sheriff of Kankakee county. His residence is, and for many years has 
been, in the city of Kankakee, and he was one of the first men in that part of the state 
to actively enlist under Mclvinley's standard. 

William Henderson, as a delegate to the state convention from Chicago's eleventh 
ward, was privileged to cast his vote in favor of instructions for McKinley, the man of 
his personal choice. 

John E. Nohren found that his connection with the Lincoln Club, of Chicago, of 
which he is one. as well as his position as a delegate from the eleventh ward, gave to 
him a not incon.siderable leverage in his purpose to promote McKinley 's prospect ot 
nomination. 





JOHN W. PAKKF.k. 



L. J. RAYNOR. JOLIET. 







A. B. ADAMb. 



E. P, CHAIHIKI.U. 



Thonla^ W. Seniiott, who was chainnan of tin.- unxiL-Uliiig delef^ation from 
Chicago's eleventh ward, is widely known, first as a staunch republican and then as one 
of the most active of the central committeemen of Chicago. He is a member of the 
Lincoln Club, the Illinois Club and the Columbus Club, and his political experience is 
of much value to an\ candidate to whom he gives support. 

O. N. Hutchin.son was a delegate from the thirty-fourth ward of Chicago to the 
state convention and was one of the reliable supporters of McKinley instructions. 
Prior to this campaign he was much more of a business man than a politician. He is 
a native of Massachusetts and is a resident of Grand Crossing, Chicago. 

John H. Tallmadge, who was a delegate from the eleventh ward to the state 
convention, supported McKinley because, to use a not uncommon phrase, he took 
"a business man's view " of the political situation. 



Lewis D. Sitts, who is a mason, a member of the Lincoln Club, and who was one 
of the unswerving eleventh ward delegation in the state convention, finds the gratifica- 
tion from these connections exceeded by his pleasure in the success of the man who.se 
nomination he helped to compa.ss. 



William R. Kerr, commissioner of health for Chicago, represented that city's 
thirty-second ward in the state convention. Consistently with his opinions theretofore 
known, he voted for instructions for the president-to-be. He is a prominent member of 
the Civic Fetleration. 

Francis Beidler has been for many years known as a lumberman of Chicago, and 
for a long time as a McKinley advocate. He was a vice-president and active member 
of the Business Men's William McKinley Club, of Cook County, and gave freely of his 
time and of his money in furthering its aims. In general, he is a prominent citizen of 
Chicagii and resides in the thirty-second ward. 



Franklin S. Hanson occupies a very stable position in Chicago's commercial 
world, a position to which he is entitled by his long residence there no le.ss than by his 
business succes.ses. He was elected vice-president of the Busine.ss Men's William 
McKinley Club, and in that connection his work was judicious and counted well. 



William A. Strohm, an eleventh ward delegate, gave at all times ingenuous support 
to Major McKinley, whom he rightly deemed was the choice of the republican masses. 



John M. Green is a native of Illinois and a veteran of the war of the rebellion. 
His regiment was that known as the "Second Chicago Board of Trade." He was 
president of the board of commissioners of Cook county during 1S91 and 1892. He 
was a strong McKinley advocate from the beginning and did effective work prior to 
and during the state convention. As first vice-president of the McKinle\- Club of the 
Twelfth Ward, whcse charter is dated October 9. 1S91, his labors had precedence of 
many others. 





ALDERMAN JAMES L. CAMPBELL. 



WILI lAM H, PHELPS. 





JOHN Z. VOGELSANCi 



CALVIN t. BK'OWN. 



John W. Salladay, of Chicago, is the president uf the Raseiisuood l\.ei)uliUcan 
Ckil), and in the seventh district campaign his services to the Foss-McKinley element 
were of real worth. His eflSciency and that of his co-workers was demonstrated by the 
outcome in his primary district of the twenty-sixth ward, which was carried for Foss 
notwithstanding the strongest of opposition. 



Doctcr J. R. Corbns, of Chicago, although not a native of Illinois, occupies in that 
state a professional position and possesses political relations that make his political 
friendship of value and that served McKinley well. His work was quiet Init effective, 
and was done in co-operation with the early leaders of the movement. He was educated 
in the Ohio Wesleyan lTniversit>-, the Ohio Medical College and the Univer.sity of 
Wooster, from which he graduated. He is a veteran of the Union army, having served 
as surgeon in the sixth Illinois cavalr>- regiment, wherein he was distinguished as the 
youngest medical officer in his department. After the clo.se of the war he became, by 
President Grant's appointment, an examining surgeon for pensions, stationed at Ambo>-- 
This position he held throughout Grant's incuml)ency. He afterward removed to 
La Salle. Here he was appointed resident surgeon for the Chicago, Rock Island and 
Pacific Railway. A few months later he was elected chairman of the congressional 
central committee of that district, which comjnised the counties ot L,a Salle, Grundy, 
Will and Dn Page. He retained this office until his removal, eiglit years later, to 
Chicago. Here he again became the local examining surgeon for i^ensions b\- designa- 
tion of President Harrison . 

R. M. Patterson, of Chicago, has a more than local reputation as an aggressive 
campaigner, and his forceful manner as a pubic speaker was of value to McKinle\- from 
he beginning of the campaign. He is cla.ssed as one of the " original McKinley men" 
tof Illinois, but did not confine his labors to that state. He spoke, !)y invitation, in 
several eastern cities and alwa.vs with good effect. His part in the campaign in Chicago 
was ably conducted and to him is given a large measure of the credit for the surprising 
action of the first ward, long known as constitutionally democratic, in yielding a majority 
for McKinley. His challenge to joint debate with Senator Tillman attracted national 
attention. 

.Among the organizations best entitled to mention for stable adherence to the 
fortunes of McKinley is the Cook County 'Veterans' McKinley Club. Its inception was 
in a gathering in March, 1S96, of about one hundred ex-union .soldiers. It was incor- 
porated in June, with a membership of five times that number, and prior to election 
day it had grown to a membership of over four thousand. Its work during the campaign 
comprised especial efforts to enroll veterans who theretofore had not been republicans; 
distril)Ution to .smaller organizations and to individuals of effective literature, and organ- 
ization of meetings in various parts of the city, volunteer speakers for which were 
furnished by the club. It also furnished speakers to the state central committee. Its 
claim that it is the oldest organization of its exclusive kind in the country has not been 
di.sputed. It has adopted permanent organization and is officered as follows: 

President, George Hunt, ex- Attorney General of Illinois, whose valuable campaign 
services are mentioned elsewhere in this book. 






CHARLES GEORCiE. 



GENERAL A. C. HAWLLY. 




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D. A. FRALEY. 



\'ice-prt-siilem^, Thomas J. Coen, who is also chairman of the executive committee, 
and who deHvered some able and effective campaign speeches, which elicited a letter of 
thanks from the state central committee, and 

M. Umbdenstock, who is a consistent republican and a successful printer. 

Treasurer, C. F. Gooding, who is also chairman of the finance committee, and 
whose political connections, like his excellent war record, have always been in conso- 
nance with the motives of good citizenship. 

Secretary. O. L. Barbour, who, as an adroit spy, won a reputation in the army, and 
is now a well-known pension attorney. 

Assistant secretary, E. F. Priddat, who is a successful insurance broker and who has 
been a strong McKinley republican ever since the latter became a public figure. 

The executive committee embraces Coen, chairman, Priddat, General John 
McNulta, Doctor J. R. Corbus and General Charles FitzSimons; and the finance com- 
mittee comprises Gooding, chairman, Umbdenstock, Patrick McGrath i who combines 
high character with no little political reputation, he having been clerk of the superior 
court of Cook count\'). Derrick Lamb, and David Soper (who is a life-long republican 
and widely known in Chicago and throughout the we.st as a lumberman and through 
his connection with lake transportation.) 



Charles George was one of the reliable citizens of the eleventh ward of Chicago 
whose known preference, and strong support of it, won for him position as a delegate 
from his ward to the state convention. Therein he labored and voted for McKinley 
instructions. 

William O. Robinson, of Chicago, is prominent in the group of native Ohioans 
who have achieved success in Illinois. His interest in politics has always been patriotic 
rather than acquisitive, his allegiance has always been republican, and he is rightly 
considered an " original " McKinlej^ man. He stands well toward the front in the list 
of the successful attorneys of Chicago, in which he has lived during the last twenty- 
five years. He is an active and popular member of the Hamilton Club, in connection 
with which most of his work for McKinley was accomplished. 




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